Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Humility is the mother of giants.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.