On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

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.

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

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.