An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.