Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.

Live up to your highest calling on earth.

Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.