I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

One faces the future with one's past.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.