The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.