Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.