Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating