Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God.

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

The image is an image.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.