Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Science and art are not opposed.

What Hath God Wrought.

One never knows how loyalty is born.

It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.