If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

First thoughts are not always the best.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.

Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Color cannot stand alone.