Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I never really did any disco dancing.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.