Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.