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What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that’s going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.