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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Give up trying to make me give up

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.