My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.