Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.