I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.