America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.