Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.