We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.