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

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

‎You’re not the same as you were before,” he said. You were much more – muchier, you’ve lost your muchness.

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.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Everyone around me says, You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Without patience, there can be no genius.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.