Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.