“What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!”

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

I know now that it’s really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Women make the world beautiful, they protect it and keep it alive.