Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.