“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf”

“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. ”

“Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.”

“Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.”

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

“Toute transformation sociale (...) s'est fondée sur de nouvelles bases métaphysiques et idéologiques; ou plutôt, sur des émotions et intuitions plus profondes, dont l'expression rationalisée prend la forme du cosmos et de la nature de l'homme.”

“Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.”