It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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.?

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

An idea is salvation by imagination

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Moonlight is sculpture.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.