The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
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.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.