The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.