One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act

Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.