The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.