Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.