Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.