In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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

love the life you live.live the life you love.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

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

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Nature is not human-hearted.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.