"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."

"Worse than a bad musician is a mercenary (musician). We need money to live but we don鈥檛 live to receive money. Besides, a pig with a gold chain on his neck always will be a pig"

"Genius is childhood recaptured."

"If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?"

"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword."

"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Anger is one of the sinners of the soul."

"Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it."

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient."