"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"