It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The secret of life is in art.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.