“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

An ounce of ghost is worth a pound of clergy.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in.

Government has no other end than the preservation of property.

The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.