It may be a cliche but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

Just as everybody has the vote including women I think children should because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.