“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.”

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She’d buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.