Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

A revival means days of heaven upon earth.

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.