A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.