“If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.”

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it.

The important thing is not what one is born with but what use one makes of that equipment.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

We must never be afraid to compromise for the greater good.