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

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

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

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

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

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"If voters don't have a stomach for me, they can get one of those blow-dried guys."

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."

"I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement."

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."

"Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity."

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."