The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.