A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

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.

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

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

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.