Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.