"I fell in love with her the moment she was late, though neither one of us knew it at the time because she hadn’t arrived yet."
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"I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain."
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
"To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in."
"Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest."
"To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself."
"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."
"If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken and available audibly for all the readers to hear as they watch."
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way."
"Follow, poet, follow rightTo the bottom of the night,With your unconstraining voiceStill persuade us to rejoice;With the farming of a verseMake a vineyard of the curse,Sing of human unsuccessIn a rapture of distress;In the deserts of the heartLet the healing fountain start,In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise."
"....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life."
"God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care!"
"I get a warm feeling among my books."
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!"
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."
"Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
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