Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.