Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

History should be written as philosophy.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Science is magic that works.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.