I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

I could see peace instead of this.

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.

What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.