Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.