Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

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 get a great idea, come up with lots of them.