I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.