There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.