A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship - it guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom...

You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.