One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.