There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

When your passion is aligned with your purpose, you are unstoppable! It is in that zone of high octane congruence that you are turned on and "cooking with gas.

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

Orange is the happiest color.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.