Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.