In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people," Victor Borge

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness.

Sometimes the shortest journey that you envisioned or planned can take longer than you thought.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Get up and dance get up and smile get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught to mount the first principles and take nobody's word about them.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.