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.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with 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.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.