"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing."

"It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better."

"The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up."

"The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe."

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons."

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom."

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

"All the world's a cage."

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

"The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it."