My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

Success comes as a result of working towards fulfilling your potential and closing the gap between who you are now and who you are capable of becoming.

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

Failures is simply a way to your success.

Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

The bluest skies . . . are in Seattle.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

My main goal is to try to make fun for everyone. And to see my fans responding to it and to see them having fun is really rewarding.