Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

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.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

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.