There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.