 Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. |
| Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. |
| How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? |
| Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. |
| A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. |
| It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. |
| 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. |
| The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. |
| He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. |
| Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. |
| An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. |
| 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 endeavor to do, he drowns. |
| I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. |
| It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. |
| I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. |
| A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. |
| To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. |
| I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. |
| Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. |
| Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. |
