To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.