The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.