How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.