An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.