The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).