Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

He who knows most believes the least.

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

Please don’t take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

Live your life with a Burning Passion, with an Unquenchable Thirst for knowledge and wisdom.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.