The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Be confident, not certain

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

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