The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.