There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It’s like a special competition in losing.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all the future.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.

Writing novels is the most exciting