Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.