There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.