America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

New York is the great stone desert.