But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.