The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.