Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

I was particularly good at math and science.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

My family gave me the best in education.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.

Most of the people interviewing me are far more square than me. I think it's the ET thing. I'm sitting there, my hair is combed, and I'm in a suit.

In the end, what will you fight for - what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

Life is like a mountain after climbing up one side and sliding down the other put up the sled.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

I love getting older!

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.

I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game?

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.