Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

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.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

He’s letting me see the real him, something he doesn’t allow a lot of people to see.

Arrogance is nothing but Stupidity with an ego.

He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.