We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.

Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

I've never been a feminist.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Wear clothes that make you feel happy.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.