I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.