In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

That which costs little is less valued.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Jests that give pains are not jests.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Boards don't hit back.