I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.
The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.
The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
