If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Don’t allow your feelings to drive the car

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

Where would we be without the success of our mothers?

That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.