I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.

As all human beings are in my view creatures of God's design we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Obviously I come from one background and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years and they know what works and doesn't work.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions and see what they would be at as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant practice it first upon yourself.