The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

Who will you choose to have your back?

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.

Try to come to a place where you accept your own imperfections. Where it‟s okay to be less than perfect. Because you are less than perfect

I'm always pursuing knowledge I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.