Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Do what gives you a buzz.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.