To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process.

Everyone who is honest is interesting.