If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity I would have to say it is avoiding worry stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me I'd still have to say it.

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.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake and must keep the conscience alive.

Nothing that comes from the deep passional soul is bad or can be bad.

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences, wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

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