Get to work because Mother Earth needs you right now.
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.
He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.
Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping. ' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.