Genius is sorrow's child.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Effective action is always unjust.

Be that self which one truly is.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Comedy is acting out optimism.