the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.