"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."

“I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.”

“We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.”

“No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.”

“I would love when that day comes so I can prove everyone wrong, but in the same time prove to myself I can be the best I can be.”

“The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

“You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.”

“When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.”

“A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.”

Source : Irving Langmuir (1962). “The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir: Langmuir, the man and the scientist, including a biography by Albert Rosenfield”