Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

We suffer in silence.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

It's great to be named the best at something . . . even if it's sucking.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you