Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

Some people build houses others build people

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.