But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Do what gives you a buzz.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

Love is a two-way street, but not everyone deserves a license.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.

Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.