Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

We must keep on learning for self-development.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.