We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.
A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.