None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

All birth is unwilling.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.