Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.