No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.