Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

There are no rules for felicity.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.