"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."

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

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

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up."

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

"Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have."

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."

"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."