"Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work."

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual."

"Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us."

"Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances."

"...I try to laugh at whatever life brings. Because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff, but when I look up, I just trip over things."

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

"Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?"