“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

A change of work is the best rest.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

There is no way the Americans are going to be able to carry out a full scale war against Iraq and at the same time maintain the same kind of pressure on the Al Qaeda network in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Philippines, and Pakistan, as well as in Europe.

If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.

Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.

The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.