Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.