In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that hes dead.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

I owe everything to the army.

I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It has a narrow brim and a flat top.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it's operating in.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.