Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.