“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

We become what we behold.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

The eye altering, alters all.

My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.

America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.

Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart.

Follow your heart and go where the music leads you.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.