Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. A Christmas Carol

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will. Consistency

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. East Of Eden