You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.