If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.
I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.
My nature just changes.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
I'll always touch you.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
I don’t have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.
I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
I will buy any crème, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.