Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

[My wife] has some investments and stuff.