Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint.

the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.