1. “A fool like that is unfathomable.”
2. “All a man can betray is his conscience.”
3. “All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.”
4. “A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns.”
5. “An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.”
6. ”Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
7. ”Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.”
8. “Facing it, always facing it, that the way to get through. Face it.”
9. “I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.”
10. "...it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence ~ that which makes its truth, its meaning ~ its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream, -alone."
11. “It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.”
12. ”It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.”
13. “It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.”
14. “Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
15. “Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.”
16. "[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation-and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear.which binds together all humanity-the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."
17. "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
18. “The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.”
19. "They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
20. “We live, as we dream -- alone.”
21. “What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal kingdom under the conditions of this earth is very well-- but soon as you know of your slavery, the pain, the anger, the strife, the tragedy begins.”
22. “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
23. “You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.”
24. “You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
