Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

Our Intuition is the beacon that guides us to peace, and navigates us through the treacherous Karmic waters.

At the morning's PowerPoint It's full of unique bullet points

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.