"There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned."

“God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.”

“Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.”

“That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.”

“No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.”

“A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.”

Source : "The Leopard" translated by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Fontana, (p. 128), 1963.

“I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.”

“For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.”

“To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.”

Source : "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.