An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Nothing is black or white.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.