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.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.