Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

May my silences become more accurate.

Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Grief is a species of idleness.

I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.