Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.