But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.