Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.