It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

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 knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.