there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.