The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

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