"The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough."

“Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.”

“Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.”

Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

“An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.”

“I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.”

Source : U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.

“Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.”

Source : Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

“I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.”

“Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.”

“If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.”