Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

I am mentally bifocal.