The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.