Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.