Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.

I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.