Archived Quotes

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very';

your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I’m a firm believer in the power of the individual.

Shoot for the stars,

but keep your feet on the ground.

Love is not to be purchased and affection has no price.

There is no substitute for hard work.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters

the location and number of instruments,

the geology of the area,

the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

For everything you have missed,

you have gained something else,

and for everything you gain,

you lose something else.

Success is not a good

teacher, failure makes

you humble.

There can be no greater error than to expector calculate,

upon real favors from nation to nation.

It is an illusion which experience must cure,

which a just pride ought to discard.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.

I can assure you mine are still greater.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind;

some come from ahead,

and some come from behind.

But I've brought a big bat.

I'm all ready, you see,

now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I’ve always been a bit of a dreamer.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.