Understanding is a two-way street.

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Actors are one family over the entire world.