"Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it."

“Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.”

Source : "Online Extra: Google's Goal: 'Understand Everything'". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

“When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.”

“There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.”

“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.”

“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”

“I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.”

Source : "Keating switch avoids Mass. duel" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. November 07, 2011.

“A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.”

“We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident.”