Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
or simply:
