Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

Romance without finance is no good.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Writing is its own reward.

We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.