I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.

We'll see Heaven together. I promise with all my heart I'll never leave you alone.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

I think it's quite jarring and exciting when you see someone in the thrall of being completely transported by the music they're sharing with you.

I wish I could have skipped college.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction.