The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Sometimes I think I'm not normal, and I get weirder and weirder everyday.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.

Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.

I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.