God is action - let us be like God.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

God, I love a man who reads

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy’s old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

Would you care for something to drink?” “Is it poisoned?” “It’s Saturday,” I said. “We only serve poison during the week.

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.