The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.

If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.