My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.