When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.