Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away and in their stead I beheld the horrors the corruption the evils and hypocrisy of society and as I stood among them a young wife a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause and death ensued the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun and might if the latter were of an aggravated character return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

The main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Once I had all the facts in I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager I didn't have any skills for writing as such so it came out in 1500 words.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it and those have already happened when we get the news.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

If the facts don't fit the theory change the facts.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars adding machines and other artifacts but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts not react with your heart.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts or at best part of the public character or at worst catchwords.