There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.