For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

There is no beauty without order.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.