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.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.