It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.