To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins... "She just needed a little push out."... "No, she doesn't. She's gone forever." "Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back.

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.