The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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

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

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

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.