“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.”

“Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action....Fate is the path of least action.”

“An excess of reason is itself a form of madness”

“Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.”

“You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.”

“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”

“...teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.”