If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work, an he hasn't obeyed.