What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

Laughter is the best medicine.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.