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

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

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.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.