Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

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.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.