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.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.