I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.