He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.