Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.