It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.
If there is not the occasion, you don't get the great statesmen. If Lincoln had lived in peacetime, you would not know his name today.
I don't think there's ever been a president elected who, in this short period of time, has done what we've done.
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.
There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.
No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.
In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends
Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.
It will not get better than Sir Alex Ferguson. It just won't.
When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.
He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
