Growth today is an investment for tomorrow.
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
Disillusions all come from within. . . from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!
Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups
There will. . . be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long.
The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.