We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.