The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

Love not because you have to attract someone, love because you have an abundance of love in your heart.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

Anger is brief madness

Oh yeah Kurt? You plan on getting the 1-2-3? But not if I hit you first with the 6-1-9!

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.