The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.