If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.