"I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either."

“Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.”

Source : "The Balance of Trade of Ideas" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. April 1, 1995.

“Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!”

Source : "Book of Jeremiah", IX. 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 379-80, 1922.

“Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.”

“I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.”

“The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.”

“It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.”

“Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.”

Source : Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”