Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Man lives by imagination.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.