The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Once you label me you negate me.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

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

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.