Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.