Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.