The avant-garde spirit is not just a youthful sentiment — I live my life by it.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.