Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness. Nothing at all.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.

If you can make peoples lives a lot better, you've got a really good business.

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.