You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.