Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.

If it looks good, it will fly good.

What you need is an idea.

Demander à la poésie du sentimentalisme ... ce n'est pas ça. Des mots rayonnants, des mots de lumière ... avec un rythme et une musique, voilà ce que c'est, la poésie.

A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.