Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.