To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.