Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

I've had kind of a nondescript college career.