To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.