"Hanns Eisler is a personal friend and I am proud of the fact... I don't know whether he is a communist or not. I know he is a fine artist and a great musician and a very sympathetic friend. No it woul…"

"I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it … I found poverty neither attractive nor edifying. It taught me nothing but a distortion of values, an over-rati…"

"The human race is a wonderful race. It's only the individuals who are terrible."

"The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."