It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake..."

"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."