There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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