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

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.

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.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

He can't take back what he said on Twitter, that he will fight me.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.