We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.