We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Courage is exhilarating.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.