"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

"It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action."

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."