All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.