We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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.