Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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

Rules of society are nothing one's conscience is the umpire.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

I like butter and the people who like butter.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.