I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.

It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.