The world is a wheel always turning.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.