The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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 foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.