None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.