I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I'd got out.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.