America is a young country with an old mentality.

Man's most serious activity is play.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.