I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.