If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.