We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.