Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.