Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.