Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.