It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

Your health is not outside of you.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.