The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

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

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

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

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

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