We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.