Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there now they are sitting out front you have everything you need.

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.

Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.