If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.