People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.