There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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.

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.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Let love be your perfect weapon.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.