The one thing that matters is the effort.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.