A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.