To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.