For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Choose the body in which to dwell.

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.