We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.