when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.