Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.