"I don't really care what people think about me. I just focus on my job."

The strictness of Russian laws is softened by the non-obligatory nature of their execution.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

A work of art is complete when nothing can be added or taken away without damaging it.