What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.