"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

"So live that your memories will be part of your happiness."

"My library Was dukedom large enough."

"It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass."