You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Friendship buys friendship.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.