The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

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

I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire

You have to be true to who you are.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside