I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.