I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

In quietness the soul expands.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Vaster is Man than his works.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.