When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

To get Congress to do anything.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.