Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

There is no one in the world that lives without sin.

If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.