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.

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.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.