The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

I believe most people are small dreamers because they dream about great things, however, they think those great things are going to come to them when they wait

They have a choice to hurt us but we have a choice to be free from pain...

I fear not the man who has practiced 10, 000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10, 000 times.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

Human cloning is coming.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

I never waste my energy feeling bad for myself

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.