Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.

Life as an art cannot be copied

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

Have faith in your destiny