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

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.