In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities.

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

I want to democratize business news.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.