You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.

What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone?

Daily ask yourself: "Considering what I'm doing now, what would be a better, superior choice for me to do, to advance my plans for success?

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.