Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.