“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of non-sense, the exalted realm of the ideal, the possible.”

“Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”

“This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.”

“To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.”

“Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.”