I think; therefore I am.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.
Mr. Watson , come here, I want you
What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
If gold rust what shall the iron do?
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.
No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.
Trees are among the most useful things grown.
