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

We must have hope or starve to death.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

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.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.