Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?