"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs"
"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate"
"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only"
"We live at the edge of the miraculous"
"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks"
"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts"
"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition"
"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death"
"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way"
"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself"
"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over"
"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference"
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love"
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love"
"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense"
"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things"
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses"
"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one"
"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life"
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk"
"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe"
"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance"
"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously"
"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm"
"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest"
"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor"
"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other"
