You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

It does the heart good to look at you.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.