"Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten"

“When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.”

Source : "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

“Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2012). “Iron's Prophecy”, p.31, Harlequin

“Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.”

“Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.”

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

“I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.”

“I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."”

“No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.”