No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.