I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.