"Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest."

“Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.”

“I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.”

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

“Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.”

Source : "The Gitmo Experiment: How Methods Developed by the U.S. Military For Withstanding Torture are Being Used Against Detainees at Guantanamo Bay". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 6, 2005.

“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”

“[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.”

“I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source : Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”