Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.