"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him."

“Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.”

“And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.”

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

Source : "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

“Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.”

“Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.”

Source : "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

“I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?”

Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.151, University of Iowa Press

“Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.”

“Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.”