Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.