What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.

Let each person decide his or her fate.

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it!

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.