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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

"Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden."

"You are the music while the music lasts."

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."

"Everything makes me nervous - except making films."

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

"Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it."

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

"Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams."

"Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

"Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood."

"You can't start at the top."

"The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules."

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."