It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.