those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.