To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

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

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.