Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

One faces the future with one's past.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.