The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.