The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.