"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

“I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.”

“If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.”

“Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.182, Oxford University Press

“A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.”

“It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.”

“One works without thinking how to work.”

Source : Christian Geelhaar, Jasper Johns, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (1980). “Jasper Johns working proofs”

“The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.”

Source : David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”