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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.