Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.