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.

I am mentally bifocal.

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

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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.