I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

Encourage yourself and do it bit by bit. It may appear tough, but every single bite of it every day is an endorsement that all will be chopped off sooner. Nothing is too difficult!

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

Sons love moms forevermore.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.