The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung