“From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.”

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I’m just glad I can share my voice.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.