I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” ― Frank Crane

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I would imagine that most of the people who consider themselves successful aren't, at least in the ways that really matter-myself included.

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word of Arabic to write a book like the one I wrote.

Intending to run ahead of everyone is not an obstacle to fall behind. Streets are full of liars.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.