Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn’t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn’t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.