It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

But history does repeat itself

Professionalism is a key to Perfectionism…

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.