The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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

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.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.