Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.