Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

I actually love modeling clothing and showing women that clothing and style can help your confidence shine.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

I bought a dress a few years ago for £2,500. It was outrageous and not the kind of money you want to be spending. I had a mad moment that day.