Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.