A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.