It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.