Patience is passion tamed.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Plato

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

Samuel Levenson

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Aubrey Beardsley

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Wayne Rooney

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

Sun Myung Moon

I love sports and I love sports movies.

James Van Der Beek

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Anna Held