I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother’s lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.