There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.