"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."

"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."