A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

God send a one person for you, never miss the chance, who make you queen and do-did everything for your smile without any selfiness....

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.