The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

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.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

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

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.