"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions."

"As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off."

"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed."

"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him."

"Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache."

"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain."

"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."

"Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."