I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

God, let me remember all good losers.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.