Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

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.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

The reason why you don´t have success is, because you don´t understand the difference between wasting and spending time.

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

The only winner today is big business.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.