“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

One must dare to be happy.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.