It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

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.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

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