Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

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

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

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

Each soul is potentially divine.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.