In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.