"Man has responsibility, not power."

"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five."

"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered."

"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct."

"The way I see it, God put me on Earth to achieve a certain number of things. By now I'm so far behind, I'll never die."

"We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before."

"I dwell in possiblities."

"It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory."

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

"There is no fettering of authority."

"Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different."

"One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them"