I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.