Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.