People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

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.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.