I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

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

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

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

I am not now That which I have been.

Dare to risk public criticism.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.