Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.