Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.