To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

You are the sunshine of my life! Thanks for brightening my world with the warmth of your Love.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.