Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Understanding is a two-way street.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.