The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.