“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ”

“Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.”

“If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.”

“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“All the world loves a good loser.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”

“I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.”

“When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.”

“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”