Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.