Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.