An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

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