It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Sadness is a state of sin.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.