Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Thou mayest rule over sin.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

You got to live before you can afford to die.