I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.
The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
You can't just dream big -you've got to think big, and then plan big.
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird!. . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.
The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about real flesh and blood. It is high time for a brand-new arena for literature, high time for some bold fighters to charge headlong into battle!
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.