...that anything which becomes greater must become greater after being less.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

All men, Socrates, who have any degree of right feeling, at the beginning of every enterprise, whether small or great, always call upon God.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.

Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. As a result, genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

He who does not hurry manages to get everywhere...

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Peace cannot be kept with force. It can only be archived through understanding.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Tell me what you are busy about, and I will tell you what you are.

The devil craps on the big pile.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

There is a division in the student population between those who go to college to learn and those who go to college to earn a diploma.

To teach is to learn twice.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.