Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Less is more only when more is too much.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.