All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
