"Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success."

“Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here”

“I spent my life making fashion an art form.”

“There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.”

“Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern”

Source : "Paola Antonelli ‘Colbert Report’ Cameo: MoMA Senior Curator Schools Stephen Colbert On Design". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

“I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.”

“When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.”

“The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.”

Source : Nissim Ezekiel (1976). “Hymns in darkness”

“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”