We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-

Be brilliant only for short periods of time. Otherwise, people start expecting it from you.

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. -Carl Friedrich Gauss-

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. -Benjamin Franklin-

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

If it’s tourist season does that mean we can shoot them?

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. -Henri Poincaré-

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

The biggest problem with communication is the perception that it occurred.