The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

God is action - let us be like God.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.