I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.