No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Women are better than man at valuing relationships and much better than men in terms of contributing towards a relationship.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.