Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

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.

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

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.