One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

I can be maternal with my friends.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.