Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.