Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.

A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.