The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.