"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

"True wisdom begins when you realize the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."