I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.