The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Ron Johnson

When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

J.K. Rowling

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Samuel Johnson

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Robert Mapplethorpe

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.

Cassandra Clare

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Gianfranco Ferre

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

Ramakrishna