You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.