Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.