Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.