You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyerthinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

The words of truth are simple.

Aeschylus

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

Natalie Portman

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching...

Paul A. Samuelson

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Albert Einstein

France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

Leo Tolstoy

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

George Washington