In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

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