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

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

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

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

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

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

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.