“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”
“There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”
“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.”
“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
“Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.”
“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”