All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.