"You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind."

“I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'”

“There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.”

Source : "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 158, 1996.

“An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.”

“I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards.”

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“Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.”

Source : Leyla Zana (1999). “Writings from Prison”

“One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.”

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

“Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!”

“When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.”