The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Even through the unseen, I know that God watches, From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

Our love can't be measured. It just is.

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly.