He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

That which costs little is less valued.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

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

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

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

Sunlight is painting.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.