No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.