You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

Americans never quit.

What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.