Miscellaneous Quotes

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Why are people's "deepest desires" always so shallow?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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

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

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

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.