Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.