Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination