A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.