The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

Attention is everything -- If you never noticed, it never happened.

Attention is decisive. What holds attention determines action.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is vitality — It connects one with others and makes one eager.

Influence is inherent in everything — Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Influence is important to character — Amongst the honorable a man becomes honorable ; amongst the base, base.

Influence is most successful when grounded in kindness — you cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Influence is a kind of immortality — a man lives as long as there are those who bear the stamp of his influence.