Politics is not a game. It's an earnest business.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.  

Without surprises life could be boring.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. 

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.