When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

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.