People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.