Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

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.

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.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

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