If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing their own best.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

Life's hard, Love's harder.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.