To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

A person preaches well that lives well.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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

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

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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

Sunlight is painting.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.