"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred."

"My principal business is to be a failure. I fail in a great many things. Every time I fail, I learn something. That is the way I succeed."

"The world is full of people who are always waiting for someone else to do something about their problems."

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk."