The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.