Short of baseball and my family it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at truth.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Truth when not sought after rarely comes to light.
Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at a touch nay you may...
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he...
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -...
Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived...
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
A few can touch the magic string and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas...
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it...
Put not your trust in money but put your money in trust.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit...
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...
Memories imagination old sentiments and associations are more readily...
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a...
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.
Every library should try to be complete on something if it were only the...
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what...
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon but its echo lasts a...
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements...
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of...
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable...
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each...
But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls...
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth...
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but...
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given...
Have the courage to act instead of react.
