Quotes
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
1. Optimize potential. 2. Facilitate empowerment. 3. Implement visioning. 4. Strategize priorities. 5. Augment core structures.
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
Persons that are stupid we may imagine, sometimes an excess of some manifest quality in the Brain... for which reason Children and aged Persons are often wont to be affected with a Dulness of the Senses: sometimes a texture too gross and earthy, so that the Spirits cannot easily irradiate it, or make Tracts for themselves.
Melancholy... is a complicated Distemper of the Brain and Heart: For as Melancholick people talk idly, it proceeds from the vice or fault of the Brain, and the inordination of the Animal Spirits dwelling in it; but as they become very sad and fearful, this is deservedly attributed to the Passion of the Heart.
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd (if it not be a plain senselessness, and doltishness incapable of all Erudition) though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended.
N. P. Willis
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
N. P. Willis
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
The ratification process will decide whether the United States would remain a system of patchwork and a series of expedients or become the most flourishing, independent, and happy nation on the face of the earth.
Repression will provoke rebellion.
Americans are entitled to the full rights of Englishmen, including representation in the decisions of the English government.
My wife thinks I'm completely mad.