In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Work for your own soul's sake.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.

In the end, we all die for what we believe in... mostly because we all die.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.