Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.