Without art there is no hope.
The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.
You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.
When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.