It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

What is to give light must endure burning.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.