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

Success is the result of hard work.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.

Friendship is the heaven of life.

This problem, once solved, will be simple.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

All bibles are man-made.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

I never quit until I get what I want.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.

The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, “we’ve never had a democrat in the family before”.