Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

He who knows most believes the least.

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

God always smiles because of our little deeds done with a good heart, but to make the heart of God always beat for you, win and keep a soul for Him!

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

All cats look gray in the dark.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

All vigor is contagious.

Go to the moon, that's my dream.

Time goes on even when we do not.