The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body books feed the mind beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much we feel so little.