No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

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.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.