Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

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

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

Imagination grows by exercise.

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

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.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.