Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

When you're lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, you put the lid on as fast as you can.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

The team you build is the company you build.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!