"The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message."

“I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

Source : "The Master Of The Haute Couture's Museum", Balenciaga Museum, June 6, 2011.

“When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.”

“You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Was it for this the clay grew tall?”

“The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.”

“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher

“History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.”

“To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.”