I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and whilst abroad underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face women have been trained to cut off anger.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

You know 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young and it was a show about old people and it was a very traditional show but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.