Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.