Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought system planning intelligence and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Thought is the wind knowledge the sail and mankind the vessel.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The world is not run by thought nor by imagination but by opinion.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

In those days it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through and write it down.

That neither our thoughts nor passions nor ideas formed by the imagination exist without the mind is what every body will allow.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.