More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.