In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

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.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.