I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

The rich are always afraid.

I am mentally bifocal.

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

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.