I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The future ain't what it used to be.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.