A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Love is being stupid together.

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.