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"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."

"I outlived the bastards."

"The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around."

"What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages."

"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."

"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

"Once again, this nation has said there are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach."

"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."

"The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

"The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education."

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

"Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope."

"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

"At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?""