The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

The power of health and wealth lies in tithing.

The way to a woman's heart might best be reached via a short cut.

Get started, there is nothing left to discuss. Do it. Now!

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

Play as often as you can.

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.