One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

I just want a friend who “gets” me and then wants to keep me—flaws and all.

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

Be compassionate and kind to yourself and everyone around you.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.

Everyone's a different person when they're younger. You evolve as a human being with knowledge and attitude and challenges and obstacles in life.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.