It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".