The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.