I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Most people living in the world are confused about life

The mind speaks, thought it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.

The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.