Success loves audacity.

Those who win are those who think they can.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

You can't avoid success if you disown your fear.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

The uber successful are those who breed success in others.

Obstacles are a measure of the intensity of your passion.

Excellence never seeks excuses.

If they aren't laughing at your goals, you are not dreaming big enough.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

This is heaven my child.

I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

Grief and passion make a volatile mix.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.