The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.