For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

Good and bad exist always, everywhere

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.