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

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

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.

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.