Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.