I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.