I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

It wasnt the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say theyve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.