When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

The only people who never fail are those who never try