A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

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.

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.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

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.