My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Have not prisons – which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe – always been universities of crime?

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.