Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.