The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.