The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.