Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

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.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

One faces the future with one's past.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

All birth is unwilling.