Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.