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

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.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

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.