the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

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 can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

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.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.