When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.