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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!"

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

"One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."

"It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things."

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."

"Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself."

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."

"The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses."

"Do all things with love."

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."