“He who would receive must be willing to give.”

“When children become unimportant to a society, that society has forfeited its future.”

“Dreams, goals, ambitions—these are the stuff Man uses for fuel.”

“A healthy state of being is to be a friend to yourself.”

“The highest form of security is confidence in one’s self, in the future, in the group and in Mankind.”

“There can be no purpose worth contemplating which does not include happiness and experience. When a man is no longer able to envision happiness as a part of his future, that man is dead.”

“Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.”

“Just to have something to do and a reason to do it exerts a control over life itself.”

“It is a demonstrable law, not an opinion, that he who would enslave his fellows becomes himself enslaved.”

“The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful.”