Beautiful old people are works of art.
Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion.
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.
I’m sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
Every age is an unknown country.
I could never say in the morning, “I have a headache and cannot do thus and so”. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler’s Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.
The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.