To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.