Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Sometimes we live as if we are blindfolded.

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.