The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.