"Put out the light."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"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."

"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."

"If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

"A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts."