Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

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