Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.