"Only transcendence can make this questionable life good, the world beautiful, and existence itself a fulfilment."

"Living thus, year in and year out, .. remote from the nature that is outside them, and no less remote from the nature that is within."

"Transformational Positivity, he says, is the future of organizational change. Optimism can and must become a permanent state of mind."

"Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior."

"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."

"When we are depressed we may say we are dispirited; we have lost the energy for the journey..."

"Reading can easily be nothing more than a way to kill time; but if it is calculated and intense, it is a steady extension of one's life."

"Anxiety is inescapable, anxiety is a part of all our lives. Anxiety is the source of all creativity."

"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."

"What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."

"The same processes the alchemists employed in contemplation of the transmutation of metals can be used to bring union to the self."

"Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach, waiting for a gift from the sea."

"He was a tone-poet. He seemed to live upon music, the moody food of imagination."

"The shepherd prince's pursuit stands for the human heart's pursuit of Beauty, or Truth, Happiness, Love, Light."

[Essays and documentaries on Hieronymus Bosch's work]

"For Goethe the flower is so much alive that it speaks and warns him; and he solves the problem differently from either Tennyson or Basho."

"Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves."

Statue of the Goddess Bastet, 26th Dynasty, Egypt "It is in Ancient Egypt where the cat flourished..."

"The Dürer coat-of-arms is both an ideogram for “Gateway in Heaven” and a rebus for “I engrave the gateway”..."

"Up to this period it had been his custom to dine at a table d'hôte. But he now began to keep house himself..."

"Men ... ought to make the search after wisdom their principal care ; for wisdom is the true nourishment of the mind." Descartes

"Perhaps no one of all the men of genius who have lived in recent times has had so lonely a soul and led so lonely a life as Leopardi."

[Extracts] “Art is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.” ― Max Beckmann

"A group of pleasant people in idyllic surroundings, hopelessly at odds with themselves and with one another."