It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.