In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Only love can keep anyone alive.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.