I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.