M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.