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.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.