The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.