The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.