The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.