People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!