there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

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.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.