Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.