Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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.

Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

It's not getting any easier.Life will keep on challenging you as long as you are the strong rival.Once you give up, life will lose interest in you and leave you in peace/ease.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.