You Can't Wish A Body Any Worse

Gossip ... Is Only Fiction Produced By Non-professionals.

I've Always Noticed That Nobody Can Be Single-minded Who Isn't Narrow-minded; And I Think It Likely That People Who Aren't So Cocksure What They Want To Do With Themselves, Hesitate Because They Have A Great Deal More To Deal With. A Nature Rich In Fine And Complex Possibilities Takes More Time To Dispose Of Itself, But When It Does, The World's Beauty Is The Gainer.

Almost Anything Is Enough To Keep Alive Someone Who Wishes Nothing For Himself But Time To Write Music.

One Reason We Haven't Any National Art Is Because We Have Too Much Magnificence. All Our Capacity For Admiration Is Used Up On The Splendor Of Palace-like Railway Stations And Hotels. Our National Tympanum Is So Deafened By That Blare Of Sumptuousness That We Have No Ears For The Still, Small Voice Of Beauty.

There's No Such Thing As Luck. Nothing Ever Just Happens To Anybody. ... Nothing Can Really Happen To A Person Till He Lets It Happen.