Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

It was always once springtime in my heart.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

The tougher the fight, the more important the mental attitude.

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

The shot heard round the world.

When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.