Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.