Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.