Poetry is the disease of the brain.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.