Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all for fear of being carried off their feet. The prospect really does frighten me that they may finally become so engrossed in a cowardly love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Miguel de Unamuno

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Marcus V. Pollio

This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation, which now threatens to destroy him, for through his behavior and his activities, he, who should be her master, has disturbed Nature's inherent unity.

Viktor Schauberger

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Mike Rutherford

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

David Byrne

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Samuel Johnson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered

Ralph Waldo Emerson