“It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.”

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.

Life, what is it but a dream?

If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It’s so interesting!

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

All geniuses die young.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.