"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been!'"

"The best things in life don't make sense."

"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against."

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."

"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."

"Genius is talent provided with ideals."

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."

"As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off."

"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"

"A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say."

"May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?"