"When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty."

“Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.”

“I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.”

“I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.”

“We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work.”

“The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.”

“Not bad for a bunch of castoffs and misfits.”

“A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.”

Source : Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam