People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.

Simplify, then add lightness.

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.