I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

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

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.