Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

Love is a spiritual soul.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.