Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Sunlight is painting.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A jug fills drop by drop.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.