There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

God has made all men to be happy.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.