Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

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.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Understanding is a two-way street.