There is no beauty without order.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.