If you want to achieve things in life you've just got to do them and if you're talented and smart you'll succeed.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I mean I'm not smarter than the market but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The smarter the journalists are the better off society is. For to a degree people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher the better the student body.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

When I seemed to be irritable or sad my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight and then say 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older I've realized just how smart Knight was.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running in a sense.

My mother is very very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know the darker stuff.