An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job