The soul paints itself in our machines.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

Man is but the place where I stand.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.