Beauty is the child of love.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise.

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

The covetous are always in want.

Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.