Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

The many become one and are increased by one.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.