Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Some pray to marry the man they love My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry.

Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

An indictment is not a conviction.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.