Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

I overcame size with mechanics.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.