Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.