There is no beauty without order.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.