Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.

Don’t confuse progress with winning.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.