Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.