Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.