Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.