Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The mind has a thousand eyes.<br> And the heart but one;<br> Yet the life of a whole life dies<br> When love is done.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.<br> It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.