What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.