"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

"Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up."

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires."

"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"[Jupiter's] satellites are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can have no influence on the Earth and therefore would be useless and therefore do not exist."

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."