The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.