We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.
But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.
I've always wanted to act.