"THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities."

"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso."

"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world."

"It's nice to see a Democrat blow something besides an election."

"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

"Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own."

"No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself."

"To live is well, but to live well is better"

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him."

"The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach."