Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude