"The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering."

“My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.”

Source : "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

“If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.”

“Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.”

Source : Song: With My Little Ukelele In My Hand

“To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.”

“There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?”

“I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

“As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.”