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

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Thought is free.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.