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

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.

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.

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

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.

Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.