Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

Industry without art is brutality.

I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith, and now I'm marrying my Dreams.Soon I will be holding hands with Destiny!

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

God speaks through me.

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

You will never change what you tolerate.

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

You can't worry about things you have no control over.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.