What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.