The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose...

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

The doctor of the future will prescribe virtually no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

I love great music and art, but quite frankly I think 'cubist' paintings and songs are hideous.

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun and fully release electromagnetic and atomic power.

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... If such war-making weapons are developed, they should - but only for purposes of peaceful experimentation....

The dove is my emblem.... I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it.... I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill...

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper - and not his oppressor - is very beautiful .

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge....

Its obvious that we don't really know one millionth of one percent about anything.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will eventually come to us. I believe that we are always on the verge of many vast discoveries, which - whsch will be so important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start us along completely new lines ....

Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!

If parents can pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value...

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me....

Life's two most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with some kind of an inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that normal listeners do not perceive.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best...."

"A good book is an event in my life."

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

"I love her beauty, but I fear her mind."

"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us"

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

"Our true passions are selfish."

"Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness."

"God's only excuse is that he does not exist"

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

"There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness."

"After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne."

"Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life."

"Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?"

"The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God."

"I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself."

"Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar."

"Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life."

"But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure."

"An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table."

"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."

"The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America."

"What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion."

"The only way of touching a heart is to wound it"

"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."

"I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought."

"The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."