The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Boards don't hit back.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
