Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.