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

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

An idea is salvation by imagination

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The day of individual happiness has passed

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'