We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.