It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

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.