It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.