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.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.