The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.