The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

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

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.