It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

All history is modern history.

Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.

Frailty, thy name is woman!—A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears:—

If a great mansion is located in a wrong environment, it loses its real value! So it is, when a great and true genius fails to get the right stage, its real value is least seen!

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.