Wisdom begins in wonder.

Be as you wish to seem.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding a more attractive glow.

I always saw candy as art.

I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

Computers intimidate me.

For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

We served Twinkies and Sno Balls at our wedding. We put them on silver trays so they looked elegant - but they were the real deal!

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'

Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.

Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

All love comes from the family.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.