Man lives by imagination.

Einstein is not merely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Charm which means the power to effect work without employing brute force is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of wisdom.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

The husband -- by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition -- regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?