"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."

"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty."

"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."

"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin."

"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins."

"We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."