Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.