All learning has an emotional base.
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Man doth not live by bread only.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
If I ever said in grief or pride, I tired of honest things, I lied.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
You are the product of your own brainstorm.
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.