One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
Diana VreelandGod was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources โ nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of styleโmaintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
Diana Vreeland