The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Be that self which one truly is.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
