We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.