People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

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

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.