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.

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.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.