One faces the future with one's past.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.