The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.