There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.