Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.