Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

What is to give light must endure burning.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.