I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
But we are more than genteel or civilized we are an idea in the process of being realized.
Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.