Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

You're either living your dreams, or living your fears.

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.