To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.