A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.