“ A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. ”

“ A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. ”

“ Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ”

“ Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ”

“ The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ”

“ Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ”

“ One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. ”

“ However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. ”

“ The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. ”

“ The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. ”