Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people whove worked together for a really long time.