To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.