We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.