They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

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.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.

It doesn't cost anything to pay attention.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.