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

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

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.

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.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.