Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won’t matter.
It isn’t working that’s so hard, it’s getting ready to work.
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be...
Person-to-person, most people are honest.
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren’t new at all.
Numbers are the most certain things we have.
Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.
My most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever ‘curling’ means.
I don’t pick subjects as much as they pick me.
My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
If I’d known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.
There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn’t that seem like cheating?
The last birthday that’s any good is 23.
I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.