No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.