Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.