Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.