The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.