Me propongo a describir, con precisión, hechos que finalmente han provocado mi forzosa estadía en este manicomio con el insólito consentimiento de mi amadísima familia, alumnos, colegas y amistades, habiendo sido recluido específicamente en el pabellón de los personajes famosos, dignidad esta que rechazo de plano.

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Luke Ford

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

George Lloyd

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Friedrich Schiller

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Alice Foote MacDougall

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Charles Francis Richter

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Larry Ellison

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Phyllis McGinley

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Eric Heiden