Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

It don't cost money to ask.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.