A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

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.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.