there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

the heart never grows old.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

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

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

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