"What a dark world—who knows?— Ours to inhabit is! One touch and what a strange Glory might burst on us, What a hid un…"

"No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all race…"

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

"Oh, for the simple life, For tents and starry skies!"

"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man."

"An Edward's England spat us out - a band Foredoomed to redden Vistula or Rhine, And leaf-like toss with every wind ma…"

"How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is— Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates’ glad symphony, Cool touch …"

"The past is our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspira…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"