No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.