With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Effective action is always unjust.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.