Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
"when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
"I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.""Well, not so much. They don't let you."
"They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come".