In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Light is the spirit of love.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.

Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

I like having to figure out how to pull things off, how to sell it, how to make it look real, but not just real, make it look better.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.