"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back."

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."

"We are always the same age inside."

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."