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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

"Music is an outburst of the soul."

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

"You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night."

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think."

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."

"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."

"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore."

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."

"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."

"Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses."

"To me faith means not worrying."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."

"I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given."

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."