If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.