One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Sunlight is painting.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.