It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

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.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.