Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

You are here because Fate invited you. You cannot go back the way you came. I suggest you go forward instead.

The fear that blocks learning is removed by Love - only then can people be reached

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.