"Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish."

"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters."

"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?"