An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I am not now That which I have been.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?