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

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.