There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.