I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

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

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.