Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.