The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I think I could spend an eternity with you, Killian, and never tire of hearing you speak to me.

If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.

New York is such an awful place. No wonder it's so crowded. No wonder it's almost impossible to leave.

The mortician interviewing the corpses

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.